Health and Social Practice (Clinical) BSc
2 years part time | September start

You will study modules that are designed to develop your skills as a critical consumer of evidence relating to your area of practice and an extended project that examines the impact of health and social practice interventions on outcomes for your patients, clients, or service users. This will underpin the modules from which the student can chose from leading to a clinical award.

Alongside the base modules ‘Understanding and development of evidence for practice’ and ‘Improving outcomes in health & social practice’ that are designed to underpin your development, our Flexible Award Building Study System (FABSS) encourages students to choose from our substantial suite of specific clinical riser modules, examples include ‘Health History & Physical Assessment’ and ‘Prevention & Early Intervention in CAMH’ as well as new modules designed for this framework such as ‘Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence/Abuse’.

There is also opportunity to select from our education, leadership or research riser modules. This facilitates students to build their own award in line with their development needs and stakeholder workforce development plans, leading to a student-centred approach to learning.

You will be taught or facilitated by research active and experienced teaching staff, specialists in the topics you will address.

Staff draw on years of health and social practice experience in their field, bringing their expertise to the classroom with a richness seldom seen in programmes of this nature. Our staff maintain close relationships with our stakeholders and specialist network involvement, bringing this contemporary and ‘real world’ evidence to their teaching practice.

You will have access to our campus facilities both at Coach Lane or City campus, including our substantial library collection that is accessible both physically and virtually and a variety of learning environments to facilitate multiple learning approaches.

You will benefit from state-of-the-art teaching and practice facilities, and from an immersive environment dedicated to the study of healthcare as your module choices dictate using simulation and immersive technologies as appropriate to your learning.

This programme is built around key principles that encourage the student to further develop research rich, active and self-directed learning.

This research rich programme will provide students with skills of intellectual autonomy, collaborative working, critical and independent enquiry and discipline specific creativity. Intellectual autonomy is a key feature of the programme within which students are given responsibility for developing health & social practice.

The programme advances their research-based approach to dealing with complex issues and making sound clinical judgements with sometimes incomplete data, a fundamental skill in the contemporary field of health & social practice. Self-direction will be encouraged to examine the key ideas and concepts that link learning to the development and understanding of research and research opportunities. Collaborative working is a strong feature within the programme and students will be encouraged to share their learning and the evidence base within the professional context and with their wider community of practice. Students will be encouraged to expose their research ideas and experiences to critical dialogue and socially construct their understandings of the research process.

This programme is designed to support the development of workforce roles and will equip you to enhance both academic and clinical practice knowledge and skills.

You can then make the most of opportunities that such roles will bring. You will be encouraged to work to the vision of the organisation that is your employer.

This award works alongside the organisational structure of NHS acute and primary care services giving you the confidence to progress in your career and either consolidate your role, move into more senior positions or study further as your career aspirations direct.